Tag: addiction
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Smartphone Distraction? Take back Control In 2019
Finding yourself consistently distracted by your Smartphone? In this 1 hour workshop, join Robert Plotkin, founder of Technology For Mindfulness and get the tools you need to gain back control in 2019. Click here for tickets
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Practice “Not Even One”
On this blog, we’ve shared many tips on the following topics: How to use technology more mindfully. How to exercise more control over how and when you use technology in order to be more productive, focused, and creative. How to enable your use of technology to be more aligned with your intentions and goals. This…
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Addicted to Your Phone? Ask Yourself These 5 Questions When You Reach For Your Smartphone
You’re about to start cooking dinner when you have a question about the recipe… what can you substitute for tarragon? So you pull out your phone to type your question into Google. But what happens first? You see a new text message, notifications from 3 different apps… By the time you’ve finished checking everything out…
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Digital Distraction is Changing Our Ever-Evolving Minds
Distraction isn’t something new, throughout history humans have always been faced with distraction, but today it seems as though distraction has become a bigger issue. But why is that? A large part of it is due to technology, something that’s supposed to make our lives easier—and often times succeeds—also has the ability to make life…
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Why is Facebook like Crack? How technology sucks us in and how mindfulness can help us step out
Judson Brewer will be giving a presentation at MIT on Friday April 17, from 12pm-1pm in Room 66-144 on how mindfulness can help break us out of addictive patterns in connection with Internet use.
